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Turkey: Secret Kurdish plan unveiled in
Ecevit archives
25.1.2008
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January 25, 2008
ANKARA, -- In an attempt at solving the
Kurdish problem in eastern Turkey a commission
formed by the 1960 coup leaders proposed a policy of
transmigration between Kurds in southeastern
Anatolia with people from the Black Sea area,
according to the archives of former Prime Minister
Bülent Ecevit, a report by daily Milliyet said.
Coup leaders wanted to bring the people in the
eastern and southeastern parts of the country closer
to the state and asked the State Planning Agency (DPT)
to propose a solution by collecting information from
the National Intelligence Agency (MIT), the military
and the police, according to the report.
The report prepared by the commission was submitted
and approved by the government formed by the coup
leaders. |
The Principles of the Development Program to be
implemented by the State in the East and the
Southeast |
However, in the
elections held in October 1961,www.ekurd.net
a new Justice Party (AP)
and Republican People's Party (CHP) coalition came
to power and the new government was told to
implement the recommendations in the report. Ecevit
was the labor minister in the new government.
The report, titled, "The Principles of the
Development Program to be implemented by the State
in the East and the Southeast," noted that the
region had been ignored and clan leaders dominated
the scene, thus eroding the people's attachment to
the state.
While economic measures to boost income in the
region was suggested, the report also proposed steps
to assimilate and transfer the region's Kurds,
referred to as "those who believed they were Kurds."
The relocation of Kurds to other regions was
intended to ensure that the population in the region
would become majority Turkish.
Kurds were to be replaced by the excess population
in the Black Sea and Turks arriving from overseas.
Milliyet also said the project also aimed to
separate Kurds in the region from those in Iraq and
Iran.
Among other measures considered were the appointment
of Kurdish governors, administrators, judges and
military officers to eastern and southeastern
Anatolia, broadcasting cultural propaganda on the
radio, and efforts to scientifically prove that
Kurds are not of Iranian but Turkish stock.
The report is one of the many documents included in
the book, "Ecevit and his Secret Achieve" that will
be published this week.
turkishdailynews com.tr
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Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
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